The pkgsrc-wip project

What is pkgsrc-wip?

pkgsrc-wip (work in progress) is a project to get more people actively
involved with creating packages for pkgsrc,
a portable packaging system coming from
NetBSD. It is the default packaging system
for NetBSD, SmartOS, and
MINIX 3 and has also been ported to many
additional operating systems, including Linux, Darwin, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, Illumos, and others.

What's in it?

You can get an overview of the packages currently in pkgsrc-wip on the
git repository page
for pkgsrc-wip, or a nicer-looking page at
pkgsrc.se.

Getting started

This project already assumes you know what pkgsrc is and how to use
it, so if you don't, please read the
reference and use it. We'll also assume a
basic knowledge of git. If you are completely new to
git or VCS, gittutorial(7) and
gittutorial-2(7) are good
introductions to it.

You should subscribe to the
tech-pkg mailing
lists. You can ask for questions about packaging here, or for comments
and import to pkgsrc, if you think a package is finished.

Additionally, there is the
pkgsrc-wip-changes
mailing list. Its subscribers receive a mail message for every commit
to the pkgsrc-wip repository. This is for addicts only.

If you're interested in committing packages (and not only testing),
send mail to Thomas Klausner with your
public SSH key, suggested user name and perhaps ideas for your first packages.